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31. Murray Rothbard to “Mom and Pop,” Friday afternoon, 5:30, Rothbard Papers;
Murray Rothbard to Whittaker Chambers, August 25, 1958, Letters 1958 Jul–Dec,
Rothbard Papers. This episode is also described in Justin Raimondo, An Enemy of the
State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2000); Murray
Rothbard, “Mozart Was a Red,” available at www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/mozart.
html [February 19, 2009]; Murray Rothbard, “The Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult,”
available at www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard23.html [February 28, 2009].
32. Sidney Hook to Barbara Branden, April 6, 1984, Box 154, Sidney Hook Papers,
Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
33. See Brand Blanshard to AR, February 4, 1965, AR to Brand Blanshard, March 4,
1965, and Brand Blanshard to AR, May 28, 1967, ARP 100–12A.
34. John Hospers to AR, January 9, 1961, ARP 141-HO3.
35. John Hospers, “A Memory of Ayn Rand,” Full Context, March/April 2001, 5.
36. Biographical Interview 17.
37. Martin Lean to AR, October 31, 1960, ARP 001–01A.
38. AR to Martin Lean, November 30, 1961, ARP 001–01A.
39. Martin Lean to AR, October 31, 1960, ARP 001–01A.
40. Hospers, “A Memory of Ayn Rand,” 6.
41. John Hospers, An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis, 2nd ed. (Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967), 591–94, 602–3; John Hospers to Nathaniel Branden, June
25, 1965, ARP 141-HO3. A selection of Rand’s and Hospers’s correspondence is published
in Letters, 502–63. The existentialist philosopher Hazel Barnes was less impressed with
Rand, calling Objectivism “based on wish fulfi llment.” Barnes, An Existentialist Ethics
(New York: Knopf, 1967), 149.
42. Rand claimed that the changes were only cosmetic, but they fell into two substantive
categories: she rewrote the sex scenes to make male characters dominant over
female characters, and she reworked all passages that demonstrated her earlier interest
in Nietzsche. For a close examination of these changes, see Robert Mayhew, “We the
Living: ‘36 and ‘59,” in Essays on Ayn Rand’s We the Living, ed. Robert Mayhew (Lanham,
MD: Lexington Books, 2004).
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1. Nathaniel Branden, Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand (Boston: Houghton
Miffl in, 1989), 314.
2. Rand’s popularity underscores new scholarly understandings of the 1960s, an
era now characterized by both conservative and liberal politics and activism, particularly
among youth. See Rebecca E. Klatch, A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New
Right, and the 1960s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999); John A. Andrew III,
The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative
Politics (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997); Gregory L. Schneider,
Cadres for Conservatism: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of the Contemporary
Right (New York: New York University Press, 1999). Other books that incorporate this
sense of the 1960s as a politically divided time are Mary C. Brennan, Turning Right in the
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